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Struwwelpeter
Struwwelpeter (Shock-headed Peter, Slovenly Peter) is Heinrich Hoffmann's 1845 German children's picture book of ten rhyming cautionary tales, written for his son Carl, translated into 1848 English and over 35 languages, and spawning parodies such as Struwwelhitler.
Stuart Little
Stuart Little is a 1945 children's novel by E. B. White, his first, about a two-inch-tall member of a New York City family who looks like a mouse.
Studs Lonigan
Studs Lonigan is James T. Farrell's naturalist trilogy, Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935), following an Irish-American youth on Chicago's South Side from 1916 to his death at 29 in 1931.
Sturm und Drang
Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), German literary movement c. 1767–1785 named after Klinger's 1776 play; genius cult, Shakespeare worship, prose drama; Goethe, Herder, Schiller, Lenz; reaction to Enlightenment rationalism, precursor to Weimar Classicism and Romanticism.
Stuti Chintamani
Stuti Chintamani (Odia: ସ୍ତୁତି ଚିନ୍ତାମଣି) is a devotional poem of one hundred prayers composed in Odia by Bhima Bhoi, a foundational text of the Mahima Dharma tradition.
Su Kasidesi
Su Kasidesi ("the Water Qasida") is a celebrated 32-couplet Ottoman Turkish ode by the 16th-century poet Fuzûlî praising the Prophet Muhammad, named for its repeated word su, water.
Sự tích trầu cau
Sự tích trầu cau, also called Tân Lang truyện, is a Vietnamese legend explaining the custom of chewing betel and the use of betel and areca in wedding gifts.
Su'luk poetry
Su'luk poetry (Arabic: شعر الصعاليك) is one of the three main genres of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, composed by outcast raiders called ṣaʿālīk who lived outside the tribal order; its best-known poem is al-Shanfara's Lamiyyat al-ʿArab.
Subarnalata
Subarnalata (সুবর্ণলতা) is a Bengali novel by Ashapurna Devi, published in 1967, the second volume of her trilogy tracing three generations of Bengali women, between Pratham Pratishruti and Bakulkatha.
Subaru and Subaru
Subaru and Subaru (昴と彗星, Subaru to Subaru) is a 2025 street-racing manga by Shuichi Shigeno, sequel to MF Ghost and Initial D, starring two drivers both named Subaru racing a BRZ and a GR86 in MFG.
Subbanna
Subbanna is a Kannada novelette by Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, published under his pen name Srinivasa, about a poor Mysore musician whose life of loss ends in liberation through music.
Subhadra Parinaya
Subhadra Parinaya (ସୁଭଦ୍ରା ପରିଣୟ), meaning The Marriage of Subhadra, is an Odia kavya by Upendra Bhanja, the seventeenth-century poet called Kabi Samrat, recounting the marriage of Krishna's sister Subhadra.
Subhashitaratnakosha
The Subhashitaratnakosha (सुभाषितरत्नकोश, "Treasury of Well-Said Verses") is an 11th-century Sanskrit anthology of about 1,700 short court poems, compiled by the Buddhist scholar Vidyākara from the library of the Jagaddala monastery in Bengal.
Subhashitavali
Subhashitavali (सुभाषितावली, "circlet of well-said verse") is a Sanskrit anthology of 3,527 verse epigrams by 362 named poets, compiled by Vallabhadeva of Kashmir around the fifteenth century.
Subhasitaya
Subhasitaya (සුභාෂිතය), meaning Well-Spoken Words, is a Sinhala didactic poem by Alagiyavanna Mukaveti from the reign of Rajasimha of Sitawaka, a landmark of classical Sinhala advisory verse.
Subhuman Redneck Poems
Subhuman Redneck Poems is a 1996 poetry collection by the Australian poet Les Murray, named after an insult he once aimed at himself, 'the subhuman redneck who writes poems'.
Success is counted sweetest
"Success is counted sweetest" is a twelve-line 1859 poem by Emily Dickinson, first published anonymously in 1864, which argues that success is best understood by those who never attain it.
Such Is Life
Such Is Life is an Australian novel by Joseph Furphy, written under the pseudonym Tom Collins and published in 1903, widely regarded as a classic of Australian literature.
Sudama Charit
Sudama Charit (सुदामा-चरित) is a 16th-century Braj-language narrative poem by the Hindi poet Narottama Dasa, retelling the impoverished Brahmin Sudama's visit to Krishna at Dwarka.
Suddilage Kathawa
Suddilage Kathawa (සුද්දිලාගේ කතාව, "Suddi's Story") is a Sinhala novel by Simon Navagattegama, set in a dry-zone village and filmed in 1985 by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake.
Sugriva (सुग्रीव)
Sugriva (सुग्रीव), vanara king of Kishkindha in the Ramayana, younger brother of Vali and son of Surya; exiled by Vali, he allies with Rama, sees Vali killed, is crowned king, and organizes the search for Sita.
Sui Tang Yanyi
Sui Tang Yanyi is a 100-chapter historical novel compiled by the early Qing writer Chu Renhuo in 1695, covering about 170 years of Sui and Tang history.
Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad (Task Force X) is DC Comics' government black-ops team of super-villains led by Amanda Waller, based at Belle Reve Prison. Debuting in 1959 and retooled in 1987 by John Ostrander, it spawned films (2016, 2021) and a 2024 video game.
Suite du Merlin
The Suite du Merlin, also known as the Suite Huth, is an Old French prose romance of about 1240 that continues the prose Merlin and tells the early years of King Arthur's reign.
Suiyuan Shihua
Suiyuan Shihua (随园诗话) is a work of Qing dynasty poetry criticism and anecdote by Yuan Mei, the principal vehicle of his xingling theory of poetry.
Sujan Raskhan ki Padavali
Sujan Raskhan ki Padavali (सुजान रसखान) is the most widely circulated collection of verses by Raskhan, the Muslim Krishna-devotee poet of Braj bhasha who lived from about 1548 to 1628.
Sukhsagar
Sukhsagar (सुखसागर) is an early nineteenth-century Hindi Khari Boli prose rendering of the Bhagavata story by Munshi Sadasukhlal of Delhi, one of the founders of Hindi prose.
Sula (novel)
Sula is Toni Morrison's 1973 second novel (Knopf), following The Bluest Eye, about the friendship of Nel Wright and Sula Peace in the Black hilltop Bottom of Medallion, Ohio, where Sula's pariah status binds the community.
Süleymaniye'de Bayram Sabahı
Süleymaniye'de Bayram Sabahı ("Bayram Morning at Süleymaniye") is an epic poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı depicting a bayram morning at Istanbul's Süleymaniye Mosque, published in 1957 and opening his 1961 collection Kendi Gök Kubbemiz.
Süleymanname
The Süleymanname is an illustrated Ottoman court history in Persian verse covering 1520 to 1555 of Sultan Süleyman I's reign, written by the court historiographer Arifi around 1558.